War on smoking. Is it about their intense concern for your health and well-being? Or is it about taking away your right to make your own choices?
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Or is it just to bring down "BIG TOBACCO" as a form of revenge?
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Transquesta 2012/09/02 18:59:30I dont want you to choose for yourself because I know what's best for you
+3The overwhelming majority of Americans believe they have the right to tell other people how to live. The anti-smoking/smoker drive is a manifestation of this twisted belief.
GO FOR IT!
Legislating behavior (as in different forms of prohibition) doesn't work yet some things need to be controlled or banned. It can get complex.
Smoking tobacco should be limited to certain areas because it should be a choice and second hand smoke can also contribute to illness and smoking related deaths.
Past that, let education do its work! It's already dramatically decreased the percentages of people who smoke. It's the best thing we have going. Education.
First, smoking raises healthcare costs, not just for the smoker, but every policyholder. Few decisions you make exist in a vacuum anymore.
Second, I think there's a little bit of a "control" thing going on here. I'd say it's more or less subconscious, but controlling this little aspect of a person's life adds a little power to the people in control.
Finally, we live in an era where minding one's on business is a lost art.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/da...
http://www.tobaccofreemaine.o...
Actually, I do care. It's my weakness that I dislike seeing people killing themselves, but there's nothing I can do, so I just ask you not to make me sick, too.
of course, they're afraid to ban it outright. So they just make it less convenient and more expensive until other incentives (in many cases, being able to afford to eat and live in a solid structure) force you to quit.
But with that being said some of the outdoor smoking bans are probably a bit too much in my opinion.
With the exception of children living with their smoker parents, which is still perfectly legal, this continual habitation of smoking spaces is a choice.
True story...no exaggeration.
I disagree with laws that ban smoking in restaurant and bars, but I would also disagree with laws that force owners to allow smoking in restaurants and bars.
There were cases of bars seeing higher profits from disallowing smoking inside BEFORE such laws were passed. Depending on your location, it could be a very sound business move, or a very terrible one.
You guys make it sound like the only choice is extremes -- smoke everywhere or smoke nowhere. Why not smoke only where the owners let us, and the people who mind the smoke can just avoid those places?
PS: Most non-smokers don't have asthma attacks from being around cigarette smoke. I think you had breathing problems before this.
Why can't you simply wait for your after meal cigarette until you leave the restaurant instead of saying that your rights trump the public's right not to have to breath your second hand smoke?
Until then, they're not going to practice active listening.
Oh wait, there already is. Fast food, sugar, fat...
What is after that on the list?
Of course, getting rid of 'ciggies' is bad for big tobacco. Good. Let them rot. It's high time the small independent stores started back up again with their unique flavours and styles!
I'm a smoker and have been for many many years. After a lifetime of basicly trying to be fairly free thinking in general, I can honestly say that smoking is the only thing that I've honestly ever been addicted to. Can't say I've tried it all but I've certainly run through a lot of it and seen a lot of people develop some serious addiction issues with less eposure that I have had. I know that there are a lot of people around who go on and on about how they just love smoking and don't want anyone ordering them to stop. And I can understand that. We are Americans and we don't like being ordered to do much of anything. But personally I haven't met another smoker who would'nt say that they wish they'd never taken the habit up or ever had that first cigarette. I personally discourage anyone who hasn't smoked to ever start. It's not at all good for anybody. Not the smoker, the family or anyone else. It takes away money that could be better spent in most any other way. It puts serious and largely avoidable strain on our health and medical resources. But most of all, it detracts from one's own sense of self respect and personal responsibility to oneself. I realize that all of this makes me a bit of a hypocite maybe but I accept that. At least...
I'm a smoker and have been for many many years. After a lifetime of basicly trying to be fairly free thinking in general, I can honestly say that smoking is the only thing that I've honestly ever been addicted to. Can't say I've tried it all but I've certainly run through a lot of it and seen a lot of people develop some serious addiction issues with less eposure that I have had. I know that there are a lot of people around who go on and on about how they just love smoking and don't want anyone ordering them to stop. And I can understand that. We are Americans and we don't like being ordered to do much of anything. But personally I haven't met another smoker who would'nt say that they wish they'd never taken the habit up or ever had that first cigarette. I personally discourage anyone who hasn't smoked to ever start. It's not at all good for anybody. Not the smoker, the family or anyone else. It takes away money that could be better spent in most any other way. It puts serious and largely avoidable strain on our health and medical resources. But most of all, it detracts from one's own sense of self respect and personal responsibility to oneself. I realize that all of this makes me a bit of a hypocite maybe but I accept that. At least on this one issue. Honestly, it's kinda like committing suicide but instead of using a gun and doing it all at once. It's more like using your thumb and pushing the bullet in slowly. Suicide is a crime. There are laws against it. (Though I'm not so sure that there should'nt be exceptions in some cases. I never thought Dr. Kavorkian was really doing a bad thing necessarily. But that's another discussion.) So I'm not so sure that the governmentisn't actually just trying to do it's job gently in this case.
What it is is not wanting people to kill themselves on purpose, then claim health benefits.
You can't give me second hand skin cancer by exposing yourself too much sun!